Stories categorised in 'France'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
Because the weather was that bad the Landings were cancelled for twenty-four hours, from the 5th to the 6th...
The skid, a landing device, in addition to the tricycle wheels were forced through the floor of our glider,...
The ‘weights up to maximum’ was arrived at by taking the basic ‘tare’ weight of the...
On arrival in France we were based at a small village called Liques a few miles inland before moving up to...
Eventually, on the morning of the 6th, a Tuesday, we heard the unit open air transmitters, giving out...
With the Germans having entered Paris by mid June, the family decided to go to the British Consul in St...
We were to organise temporary dumps of ammunition, petrol and food in the sand dunes to back up immediate...
The road on either side was littered of course with abandoned vehicles and things upside down and so on and...
All around we saw the belgians in their first world war helmets and long coats in full flight Westward and...
From South Africa to India From Cape Town, we went to Bombay. There we were billeted at the Taj Mahal...
I lived in Caen, a city in Normandy, before the start of the war, and became involved in the French...
Arriving finally at Le Havre we collected our vehicles, formed a convoy and headed for our destination,...
In this excerpt, I describes my part in the D-Day Landings on Juno Beach and being wounded in action. Once...
The German plane dropped two bombs that landed near the Odeon cinema and all the windows and emergency...
There wasn't much food in France at that time, and French civilians were always ready to 'make an...
Reposted to join a new battalion A few days before embarkation, however, I and a number of others, mostly...
When it was dark, Pierre took me into his farmhouse and gave me a substantial meal and a bed for the night....
Bulford Barracks and bren gun carriers I joined 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 6th of foot -...
Here's a British Soldier who landed in France on D-day....
One of the saddest experiences I had was my friend, who was also a Petty Officer, we were lying off a...
At the end of that I joined the 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry, which at the time was...
Capturing Bridges Across the Oder and Oden Rivers On or about three weeks after D-Day we, that's the...
The cemetery is on land given by the German nation to the British War Graves Commission. The ceremonies...
We proceeded to Annizen, near Bethume, picked up a load of stretchers, blankets and other equipment, then...
In the run-up to D-Day I was commanding the 3rd Parachute Brigade in the 6th Airborne Division....
This confirmed that Dick had in fact travelled through France and made his way to Switzerland safely. The...
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